Yearly Archives: 2008

The trouble is well into six figures for two Northern Virginia restaurateurs and their associates who were held liable this year for stealing the style and the recipes of a popular chain of Buffalo wing restaurants. U.S. District Judge James ...

Everette Antwon Burrell caught a break with a boot-camp sentence early in his criminal career, but that sentence came back to haunt him years later. Burrell was sentenced to boot camp for a 1993 drug conviction. When he came up ...

Everette Antwon Burrell caught a break with a boot-camp sentence early in his criminal career, but that sentence came back to haunt him years later. Burrell was sentenced to boot camp for a 1993 drug conviction. When he came up ...

Defendant daughter and her husband committed fraud and breach of fiduciary duty against her father, an illiterate and hearing-impaired 84-year-old tobacco farmer who amassed assets exceeding $1 million, by isolating him from his other three children, selling off his farm ...

Ever heard a comedian tell a joke you heard somewhere else? Turns out, there’s a whole series of unwritten rules that, more or less, govern the otherwise-lawless world of stand up comedy material. Now, two University of Virginia law professors ...

LaBravia Jenkins can keep her work address. The appointed Commonwealth’s Attorney for Fredericksburg was elected by the voters Tuesday, defeating two other contenders. As reported by The Free Lance-Star, it was a close vote. By Peter Vieth

Electing three new judges in Norfolk in the next session of the General Assembly apparently won’t be a repeat of the battle to fill three circuit court vacancies there that occurred this year. Sources say the delegation has agreed on: ...

The recount court has proclaimed Democratic challenger Tom Perriello the victor over Republican incumbent Virgil Goode in the recount of the vote in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. “Having determined that Tom S. Perriello has received the highest number of votes, ...

The judicial system appears to have escaped unscathed from the latest round of budget cuts announced today by Gov. Tim Kaine. Kaine did not mention the court system in his remarks to the legislative money committees, and a quick check ...

Well, certainly not a Judicial Hellhole as defined by the American Tort Reform Association in its annual report on what it views as the worst places to try a case from the civil defendant’s point of view. West Virginia takes ...